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According to John Buridan, the time for which a statement is true is underdetermined by the grammatical form of the sentence – the intention of the speaker is required. As a consequence, truth-bearers are not sentence types, nor sentence tokens plus facts of the context of utterance, but statements. Statements are also the bearers of logical relations, since the latter can only be established among entities having determined truth-conditions. This role of the intention of the speaker in the determination of what is said by an utterance is not isolated in medieval semantics.
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Thanks to Frédéric Goubier, for comments on an earlier version of this paper. I am also grateful for the support of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.
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Perini-Santos, E. John Buridan on the Bearer of Logical Relations. Log. univers. 2, 59–70 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-007-0030-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-007-0030-y